Thanks for the response Craig. Let's add another factor to this mix. With a little creative diagnosis I think I've determined that the culprit MIGHT be MS Office 2003, also installed on this machine. With Outlook 2003 out of the way VFP8 responds as expected. Add to that some other little 'odd' behaviors within OL2003 and the case seems stronger.

>Absolutely it's ready. Much better than Win2K. I'm not sure what your problem is, but I have not experienced any wait issue.
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>>I'm trying to develop on a new generic XP pro 2.66GHz machine with both VFP 8 and VS.Net installed. The constant waits while the OS goes out to stare into the weeds for 10-45 seconds periodically is driving me nuts. Is anyone else out there having any similar problems? I've been on-line with MS for a couple of weeks now trying to beat this thing into submission and I'm about ready to wipe it and to back to W2K.